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Improving Education for English Learners: Research-Based Approaches NEW!

This new publication, just released from the California Department of Education, addresses critical questions for educators about optimizing English language and literacy development and content instruction. CAL contributors include Diane August, Deborah Short, and CAL Trustee, Fred Genesee. Learn more.

Expanding Educational Opportunities in Ghana: Bilingualism and Biliteracy for Young Learners
CAL partnered with the Education Development Center (EDC) on a USAID-funded project - Education Quality for All (EQUALL) - to improve the quality of primary literacy education in Ghana. CAL led development of literacy standards and milestones, completed ESL pupil books, and contributed to teachers’ guides for biliteracy education. Learn more about this project.

Teaching Reading to English Language Learners
October 6 – 8, 2010 December 6 – 8, 2010
Based on the What’s Different About Teaching Reading to Students Learning English? curriculum, Training of Trainers Institutes are designed for trainers to use the curriculum to provide professional development for educators who teach reading in classes with English language learners. Learn more and register.

New SIOP lesson plans posted for educators
CAL is expanding its collection of teacher-developed SIOP materials with updates of lesson and unit plans from our current research and professional development projects. View the lesson plans.

Online database of secondary newcomer programs now available
CAL has published a searchable online database of newcomer programs in secondary schools in the United States which includes profiles of more than 60 middle and high school newcomer programs that serve students in 23 states. Search the database or submit a program profile. Learn more.

CAL collaborates with WIDA Consortium in its work to provide standards-based assessments for English language learners. Learn more.

CAL is conducting rapid-response research studies on issues related to serving new and rapidly expanding enrollments of English language learners in the Appalachian states (Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia). Learn more.

Great Lakes East Comprehensive Assistance Center
Learn more about our work with the Center and view a focused page on resources available for English language learners.

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Research on the literacy and language development of Spanish-speaking English language learners

Learn more about this 5-year program of research on the literacy and language development of Spanish-speaking English language learners (ELLs).

CAL is working with the WIDA Consortium to develop ONPAR, a computer-based test of science and math for beginning English language learners. Learn more.

Coaching Language Teachers NEW!
This digest introduces the topic of coaching language teachers in a way that is responsive to the complex, varied, and dynamic landscapes of language classrooms, describes three dimensions of coaching discourse that can shape dialogues among coaches and language teachers, and presents some general advice for coaches. Read the digest.

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Refugees from Iraq
Expanded Refugee Backgrounder

Foreign Language Teaching in U.S. Schools

Foreign Language Teaching in U.S. School:
Results of a National Survey

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Every year, CAL offers the G. Richard Tucker Fellowship, which includes a four-week residency at CAL's offices in Washington, DC. Learn more.

2010 Sheikh Nahayan Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
Proposal submission deadline is September 30, 2010. Learn more.

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